Dark comfort (ii)
Dark comfort (ii)
Dark comfort (ii)
Dark comfort (ii)
Dark comfort (ii)
Dark comfort (ii)
Dark comfort (ii)
Dark comfort (ii)
Dark comfort (ii)
Dark comfort (ii)

Igshaan Adams

Dark comfort (ii), 2024280 x 186cmSign in to view price
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cotton twine, cotton fabric, polyester braided rope, plastic beads and tiger tail wirePublic Gallery
Description
Human-crafted. AI-refined.

This contemporary artwork depicts a vibrant and chaotic scene filled with a multitude of colorful, irregularly shaped objects. The composition is dynamic, with a central focal point of a water fountain or spout emerging from the sea of diverse elements. The vibrant array of colors, ranging from bright pastels to deeper hues, creates a visually striking and immersive experience. The artist's use of mixed media, including the incorporation of found objects, reflects a style that challenges traditional artistic boundaries and encourages the viewer to contemplate the relationship between nature, human-made materials, and the interaction between the two. ...

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Igshaan Adams
Artist
Igshaan Adams
B.1982, South African

Igshaan Adams’s practice coalesces performance, weaving, sculpture and installation. Born in Bonteheuwel, a township in Cape Town, South Africa, Adams draws upon his background to contest racial, sexual and religious boundaries. This intersectional topography remains visible throughout his practice and serves as a palimpsest upon which traces of personal histories are inscribed and reinscribed. He explains; “I’m interested in the personal stories recorded on the surface. What is recorded is not necessarily always a factual account but can be what is imagined - a combination of myth-making and meaning-making”. Adams approaches materiality through his own subjectivity. Often, cultural and religious references are used in conjunction with surfaces that have always been present throughout his life; thread, beads, wire, linoleum, cotton twine, fabric. His interest in the material oscillates between the intuitive process of handling different substances as well as a formal inquiry into how various materials behave in different contexts and how they transfigure or evolve depending. Likening the material’s potential for evolution to his own potential for evolution, Adams is engaged in broadening his ideas of selfhood in an ongoing process of covering and uncovering, doing and undoing. ...

Igshaan Adams: Artworks
Bontheuwel / Epping
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Tussen Die Kas En Die Voetend Van Haar Kooi. (Between Her Cuboard and the Foot end of Her Bed)
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Tussen Die Kas En Die Voetend Van Haar Kooi. (Between Her Cuboard and the Foot end of Her Bed), 2021
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Vanguard
Igshaan Adams
Vanguard, 2021
246 x 283cm
Zulekha
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Zulekha, 2019
280 x 300cm
Plate 2 from the series Neoscope
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160 x 180 x 180cm
Please Remember II
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Heideveld
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240 x 360cm
Langa
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69
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Weiveld (ii)
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Duisterent I
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Maureen, Roy
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Salat Aljamaeat Min Bonteheuwel iv
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Holy terrain
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Overflow
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Pit
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Barrier
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